consuetudinary

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n. a ritual book containing the forms and ceremonies used in the services of a particular monastery, cathedral or religious order.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Customary.

n. A manual or ritual of customary devotional exercises.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Customary.

n. A book containing the ritual and ceremonial regulations of a monastic house or order; an ordinal or directory for religious houses, or for cathedrals and collegiate churches observing monastic discipline.

This shows that the vicarius urbis was firmly established in the fulness of his office and externally recognized as such; certain consuetudinary rights had even at this date grown up and become accepted.

By connecting them with the sanctuary of Jehovah, which stood at the well of Kadesh, he made these functions independent of his person, and thus he laid a firm basis for a consuetudinary law and became the originator of the Torah in

The duty being assigned by the law to the priests (Le 1: 6), was construed by consuetudinary practice as an exclusion of all others not connected with the Aaronic family. for the Levites were more upright in heart to sanctify themselves than the priests -- that is, displayed greater alacrity than the priests.

In many cases, to which, from their circumstantiate nature, neither the written nor the consuetudinary law is directly appli - cable, these are the Responsa Prudentum which supply that un - avoidable deficiency.